Saturday, 7 December 2013

Combined Field School and Field Season in
Architectural Recording for Archaeology

Field School: June 16- July 4, 2013

Post-school field season, -July 11

A three-credit course with transfer credit offered by the University of
Maryland School of Architecture. Planning and Preservation focusing upon the
ancient seaside villas of STABIAE in Castellammare di Stabia, Italy.

This is a three-week course with one week field season at the end. The
aim is to train students in a particular type of architectural recording for
archaeology which combines techniques of hand drawing, photography, digital
three-dimensional drawing and CAD
post production preparation of final drawings. The goal is train students so
that within one to two weeks they will understand the whole process and be able
to participate productively in a fully active architectural recording team on
the archaeological of the large Roman villas of Stabiae. At the conclusion of
this course a successful student should be capable of being a valuable member
of many types of architectural recording teams or assisting in the production
of “as-built” drawings for architects.

Requirements: open to undergraduates and graduates. Some preference
will be given to students who have had some experience of architecture, or have
an ability to draw, but also for those students in fields such as archaeology,
classics and art history. Knowledge of trigonometry or CAD is not necessary, although students should
be prepared to bring a personal computer equipped with a current version of
AutoCAD, which can be downloaded free for anyone with a .edu email address, and
Adobe Illustrator.

The course will be housed at the Vesuvian Institute of the Restoring
Ancient Stabiae Foundation in Castellammare (near Pompeii) and will focus on
the archaeological site of the Roman villas of Stabiae. Program will
incorporated visits and general introduction to neighboring sites of Pompeii,
Herculaneum and Oplontis.